Breakdown of Dedesinin ölümünden sonra köye daha az gitti.
gitmek
to go
köy
village
daha
more
sonra
after
dede
grandfather
az
little, not much
ölüm
death
Questions & Answers about Dedesinin ölümünden sonra köye daha az gitti.
Why does dedesinin have two suffixes?
It's built in two steps. First, dede (grandfather) gets the 3rd-person possessive suffix -si to mean "his grandfather". Then, because we are talking about "his grandfather's [death]", we need the genitive case suffix -nin, making dede-si-nin.
Can you break down the suffixes on ölümünden?
Let's take it apart: ölüm (death) + -ü (possessive suffix linking back to the grandfather) + -n- (buffer letter) + -den (ablative case). The ablative case (-den or -dan) is required here because the postposition sonra (after) always demands it.
Why doesn't the Turkish sentence include a word for "often"?
The phrase daha az literally means "less" (or "more little"). When you use it as an adverb describing how much an action happens, as in daha az gitti (went less), English speakers naturally translate this as "went less often". Turkish doesn't need an extra word here.
I see gitti (he went), but where is the pronoun for "he"?
Turkish often drops subject pronouns like o (he/she/it) because the verb ending already shows who is doing the action. Here, the lack of a personal suffix on git-ti tells us it's the 3rd-person singular. Since Turkish doesn't have gendered pronouns, this sentence could equally mean "She went to the village less often after her grandfather's death."
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